Poor Sleep Increases Stress to 30 percent

A series of problems related to poor quality sleep may increase the level of emotional stress by a third, shows a new study by scientists in California - based Berkeley.

Recently, they studied to find out how poor, weak sleep can affect a person's mental state.

Almost 330 people between the ages of 18 and 50 were examined during the study, and the results were published in the professional journal Nature Human Behaviour.

In the first part of the study, scientists used MRI and polysomnography (sleep study) to measure brain waves in 18 adults as they watched several emotional - load videos. After reviewing the videos, the study participants were asked to complete a questionnaire praising their stress levels.

Scientists have found that after poor night's sleep, prefrontal media cortex in the participants ' brain, which contributes to the relief of anxiety, does not function properly.

At the same time, they discovered that the deeper “emotional centers of the brain were extremely active.

The results were repeated in another study involving 30 people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. At the same time, an online study was conducted to measure the quality of sleep and anxiety levels of 280 young and middle-aged people for a four-day period. This proved that poor sleep increased emotional stress to 30 percent.

Otherwise, many teenagers between 12 and 18 should sleep at night between eight and nine hours, while adults between 18 and 65 are advised to sleep seven to nine hours.

A recent study also revealed that sleep for less than six hours can double the risk of early death among chronically ill people.

The effects of insomnia the next day feel like fatigue. Fatigue is a physical and psychological phenomenon that affects concentration, impaired attention, and memory. Such a person is easier off with work, insecure, and nervous. At the same time, tolerance towards stress also decreases